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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on July 2, 2019July 8, 2019

I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live chat.

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  • Economic Growth

Veronique de Rugy on Austerity Facts

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 7, 2012

First, I wish we would stop being surprised by what’s happening in Europe right now.…

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  • Poverty

Glenn Loury on the Pernicious Influence of James Q. Wilson

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 7, 2012

“Calling a spade a spade turns out not to be a social policy,” Loury says.…

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  • Economic Growth

Austerity Facts?

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 7, 2012

Russ Roberts wants the facts: Which nations in Europe have slashed government spending? I suppose…

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  • Public Policy

The Way Singapore Does It Is Amazing, So For God's Sake Don't Let It Happen Here!

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on August 26, 2009

George Akerlof and Robert Shiller make a series of puzzling and inconsistent claims in their…

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  • Economics

You Got Morals in My Economics!

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on August 26, 2009

Economics, qua social science, is not a normative field. But much of the drive to…

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  • Public Opinion

The Bailouts are Like Paying Off Molested Children

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on June 18, 2009

Since I found it all interesting, I thought I’d just reproduce all of Will Ambrosini’s…

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  • Public Policy

Yglesias on Taxes

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on June 18, 2009

In an admirably frank piece in the American Prospect, Matt says the problem with Obama’s…

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  • Nationalism

Ladies Still Not Taxpayer Dispensers

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on April 8, 2009

At Slate, Kerry Howley talks sense to Michelle Goldberg about the doubtful feminist wisdom of…

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  • Psychology

The $250,000 Focal Point

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 5, 2009

Yes, people who think they’ll get walloped with extra taxes if they touch that 250…

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